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The Bookstore with the Skull on the Shelf

Talia Military fell in love with mysteries as a child, when her mother introduced her to Agatha Christie. As an adult, she loves the genre even more. You have to, if you work at The Mysterious Bookshop. Five blocks from the World Trade Center, the Mysterious Bookshop looks out of place and time. It is a single room, barely 20 feet by 60. Wooden bookshelves line three of its four walls, 12 shelves high on one side, 14 on the other. To reach the highest shelves, ladders slide along each wall atta